The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
tn. STATE or nIssrssI pPI.

THE STATE Or MISSISSIPPI.
What makes the SAFE OF Missis-
sippif The people, the whole body Of
the people. What is the condition OF
those people In respect to the laws1
II Is that Of respect and obedi-
ence. They make the laws and
they obey them. What relation,
then, does the Jackson psnitentisry
ring bear to the whole body Of
the people OF the Slater Merely
that Of numbers. They are, psrhaps,
. dossn or so oft Of twelve hundred
thousand. What right, then, have
they to assume that they are 10 any
sense representing the people and are
10 be considered and referred to as the
people Of the State OF Mississippi 7
None whatever. The people Of the
State utterly rspudlste them. They
stand singular and alone, their chief
loaded with murder and covered with
the iniamy Of inhumsnly and brutally
and cruelty treating the convicts he
leases 80 that the fash is cut from
their bodies by whips and
their fee. tester and rot. the result OF
exposure to frost. Having no right to
represent Mississippi, or to assume
that they are the State, why do they
continue to insist that the APPEAL has
and 10 still asssiling the Sis.ef 1t 10
that they may escape the vengeance
Of the psople by putting the State in
their place. Gan they thu, escaped
No. Are you sursf Qlits sure. OI
the eighiy.four pspsrs published in
Mississippi only twelve Of them In the
least sustai, Hamilton, the murderer
Of Gambrsll, the lessee Of the Psniten-
t'ary, the vice-presidsnt OF the Ship
Island railroad and the boes Of the
ring. seventy.two Of the jourDals Of
the State aud nearly all Of the i,urnsla
on. Of the State condemn the brutal
murder, the gross atrJcity Of which Ia
rea'iE,d 10 the smashing OF the skull
Of the dying man, literally hsmmsrinp
the life out OF him. These
seventy.two papers represent
seven-eighths Of the public
sentiment Of Mississippi, which aus
tains and Is proud Of the position the
Atrial has taken In exposing thii
ring that does not hesitate 10 murder
TO carry out It's purpose Of boosting tn,
political center Of the State, terroriEinl
most OF its inhabitAntl and reducin,
the political aims Of agent party Il
the level Of their needs snd purposes
In gain and murder. True TO III,
hopes that their fathers had In vie v
In founding . noble common wealth
the people Of Missiisippi are for peace
for free press and TOR free speech
These. they know, are the essentis
elements to the maintenance OF = fire.
State, and they condemn Hamilton
and his murderous gang TO- seeking h
mursle free press by the murder Q
an editor. Hamilton may have hi
psrtisaus. he may be ieted and toasted
he may be- the recipient Of the gentl
attentions Of lovely but misgulde,
women, he Is q doomed man. He m =,
escaps the g,llows, and thus chea, jus
tice OF its due, but he cannot revers
the unanimity Of pubic sen
timent, which condemns hin
and his aids and sbettou
The people Of Mississippi pu. tn,
mark OF Gain upon him, aud he eau
not escape. Bat the people g, fur
Their; they have marked the men whit
have been his plant aad supple tool
In ON 20, aud have determined 10 b
done with them forever. Murderer
are TO be punished, and murder mad
odious, aud the officials who have len
themselves 10 the perpetus,ion OF
nsiArious ring, In lgnoraucs or will
knowledge, will never again be trust
ed, WILL never again be Off ,ers or rep
resen,stives Of State. No ring has eve
In the United Slatse perpelua,ed itsel
beyond the day Of 1t, exposure. Tn
grea, body Of the people are hone,
and are pursuing honest ways. an
they will not tolerate dishonest pub
lie servants moment after that dii
honesty 10 made pain. The days {
the Hamilton gang are numbere,
Their strength vent out In the mu
der Of GAmbrell. They Cannot gu
vivs or reoSpsrate. Hereafter u wi
be political suicide for any mau
Mississippi TO be identified with thu
ring or any Of the political pupper
whom II managed and manipula
cd. They are all marked, they al
all known. Their best words wi
hereafter be IS poison. thsir help
the stroke q palsy, blishhng all the
touch.